This week we have been continuing with our class novel, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark. Plop has found out why dark is fascinating and why it is wonderful. We have been continuing to practise using question marks, exclamation marks and word banks in our writing. In maths, we have been learning to measure weight using balance scales and/ or standard unit scales. Some of us have been measuring and comparing kg’s and 1/2kg’s. In H&W, we learnt more strategies for feeling calm, such as meditation, breathing and grounding. We finally finished our festive frieze for the hall and it looks fab. We used wax resist, paint and different materials to make 3D, steaming cups of hot chocolate. This week we have also had outdoor learning and committees, so don’t forget to ask me about them. Finally, in science, we started learning about energy and became energy detectives, spotting as many types of energy as we could.

This week we followed an autumn themed yoga story and practiced different yoga poses. the favourite pose was the squirrel and the bear. We also learned a new game called coconut. in Maths we finished off our learning on measuring length and are ready to start mass and capacity. on Thursday afternoon we had Miss Good who did some maths in the real world and tally marks. We also had committees and outdoor learning this week and we started work on our festive frieze.

We have had a lovely shared learning this morning with some of our parents and carers. We worked together to make collage, feather owls just like Plop from our story ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’. The owls were peeping out of a 3D tree. We are all very pleased with our results. In Math’s we have been measuring in non standard units and standard units. in Outdoor learning we were able to choose which group we were working in to work with different children in our year groups. In Literacy we have started learning about ! and ?.

What a busy couple of days we have had. We have started a new class novel with Mrs Robertson. It is The Owl Who was afraid of the dark and we are enjoying learning about Plop the baby barn owl. In Literacy we were practicing how to use a word bank to complete sentences about our novel. In PE we started learning some yoga poses but we need a bit of practice. In Maths we have been working more on measure. some of us have been estimating and measuring in meters and some of us have been measuring in non standard units of measure. We have all been very busy measuring different things. We started a new block in outdoor learning. We got to chose from three different activities, one of them was creating the longest creature, estimating its length and measuring. there was a lot of laughs! In Health and Wellbeing we started learning about why people might feel stressed. We thought about what that meant, what it felt like and we shared our experiences. We read a book called Cora’s Dragon and created our own dragons. It is our turn to decorate one of the notice bods so this week in art we started creating cosy pictures called nestled with a book. we used emphasis to paint a big moon, we did printing with leaves to create texture and depth and we used our sketching skills to draw a little creature. we didn’t quite have enough time to piece them together so we will finish this next week.

We have had a lovely first week back. In PE we took part in a variety of Halloween themed games, where we worked on our fitness, problem solving, communication and team building skills. In health we have completed work on strategies to use in challenging situations such as using our stop shield, talking to a trusted friend or adult and taking deep breaths…. We have also started discussing the different feelings we feel over the course of a day and how everyone is different. we made feelings flowers and hung them up to make a feelings garden. In math’s we started learning about measuring lengths. We discussed longest, tallest, shortest and  about the same. we discussed how important it is to line objects up  before we measure and we spoke about how many cm are in 1 meter. Don’t forget to ask me about my skills academy!

This week in maths we continued our learning about shapes. We focused on 2D and 3D shapes and we made 3D shapes with Play-Doh. We also learned about faces, edges and vertices. We finished out autumn wax resist leaves, discussed harvest festival and thing we are thankful for and we practiced our songs and words for the Harvest Service. Happy holidays!

We have been enjoying playing mini games in football this week. We have been working on our dribbling, passing and shooting skills as well as communication, problem solving and listening. In outdoor learning we have now had a chance to do all three of the activities, natural story builders, bird watching and tree aging. its been very interesting exploring these activities in our year groups. in Literacy we have been focusing o the connectives but, so and and. We have been using these in sentences and creating our own. In maths we have finished up our work on cross-sections of 3D shapes. we have explored play-doh, shapes, games and activities. For RME we have been learning about Harvest. We thought about the gifts that Autumn brings and things that we can be thankful for. in Art we finished making Autumn leaves using wax resist to create patterns using lines and shapes. We love the Autumn colours we used.

We have loved learning about cross sections of 3D shapes this week. We were able to chose our activities, whether we were matching, building, playing Tic-Tac-Toe or making 3d shapes from playdoh and cutting. whatever activities we didn’t do this week we will get to do next week. We have also been writing autumn sentences with connectives to make them interesting. In Art we have been focusing on line. shape and pattern to create autumn wax resist leaves. We have also been busy in our committees this week.

This week we have continued with learning football skills. We were using lots of fun games to practice, dribbling, passing and other footwork skills. Our favourite game is space invaders. In outdoor learning we rotated groups so one group looked and birds and nature, another looked at trees and the third did natural story builders. In Health and Wellbeing we discussed the difference between a big deal and a little deal. We also spoke about the different responses we can have in these situations. We also started Committees this week. Don’t forget to ask me about my Committee. in Art we created colourful Christmas art in preparation for Christmas card printing.

This week we have started learning  football skills in PE we learnt to say ‘no to the toe’ to make sure we were using the correct part of our foot to dribble. We worked on lots of touches and keeping the ball under our control. we played What’s The Time Mr. Woolf, Traffic Lights and Space Invaders but all with a football twist. For outdoor learning we have split into three groups one group did natural story builders, one focused on leaves and trees and another on birds. we will rotate these groups for the next three weeks until we have covered the three different activities. In Literacy we have been working on writing good sentences. we have been thinking about capital letters, spacing, full stops and making sure they make sense. In Maths we have been exploring 3D shape this week and in Health an wellbeing we have been learning about positive affirmations. In Science we created our own skeleton flip books and have been exploring facts about our skeletons, joints and muscles.